Edward R. (Russ) McNees

PRACTICE AREAS

• Civil Litigation
• Insurance Coverage and Defense
• Business Disputes
• Criminal Defense

GOVERNMENT SERVICE

• Law Clerk to Judge W. Swan Yerger, Hinds County Circuit Court (2006 – 2007)
• Oxford University Transit Commission, Commissioner (2014 – Present); Chairman (July 2018 – Present)
• Adjunct Professor, University of Mississippi Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College; Honors Business Law

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

• Named to Mid-South Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” List (2010 – 2019)
• United Way of Oxford & Lafayette County, Board of Directors (2018 – Present)
• Rotary Club of Oxford, Mississippi (2014 – Present); President (2016 – 2017); Vice President (2015 – 2016)
• Mississippi Bar Association
• Mississippi Bar YLD Board of Directors, North West District Director (August 2016 – July 2018)
• Oxford Area Young Lawyers, President (August 2015 – July 2016)
• Lafayette County Bar Association
• Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association, 2018 Board of Directors
• Graduate of Leadership Lafayette (2014)
• Paul Harris Fellow

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Mississippi (State and Federal courts)
• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

ABOUT

Edward R. “Russ” McNees graduated, summa cum laude, from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 2003.  He obtained his law degree from the University of Mississippi in 2006, graduating magna cum laude.  Following graduation from law school, Russ served a one-year term as a judicial law clerk for Hinds County Circuit Court Judge W. Swan Yerger, gaining experience in civil and criminal litigation from behind the scenes.

Russ is a native of Jackson, Mississippi.  He has been licensed to practice law in Mississippi since 2006.